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A Holmes County man who was shot by a Coshocton County deputy sheriff on Tuesday night died
yesterday afternoon.

The shooting occurred after a traffic stop and chase, although few details of the incident have
been released.

Police in New Concord in Muskingum County said a village officer tried to stop a pickup truck
near Main Street and Rt. 83 at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday after witnessing the driver commit “several
traffic violations.” The truck’s driver — identified yesterday as David Stahl by Franklin County
Coroner Jan Gorniak — refused to stop, and the officer followed the truck north for 27 minutes
before it crossed into Coshocton County, authorities said. The officer stopped at the county line,
police said.

The Coshocton County sheriff’s office was notified, and deputies there quickly spotted the
truck.

Sheriff Tim Rogers said three deputies chased the truck for about a mile, and at least one
deputy’s cruiser crashed near Rt. 36 and Township Rd. 509 northeast of Coshocton.

One deputy fired an undisclosed number of shots at Stahl.

A deputy suffered injuries in the crash that weren’t life-threatening. No other details were
released.

Both Stahl, 20, and the deputy were taken to Coshocton County Memorial Hospital. The deputy,
whose name wasn’t given, was released from the hospital yesterday, Rogers said. Stahl was taken to
Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he died.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been given the case.

Rogers was not answering many questions yesterday, saying the investigation is in the state’s
hands. BCI officials also wouldn’t answer questions.

It wasn’t clear why Stahl was shot, whether he had a gun and what type of traffic violations he
was accused of committing.

“This will make sure the facts are straight and the officers are given a fair shake,” Rogers
said of turning the case over to BCI.

The family would like to know those facts.

David F. Stahl, David’s grandfather, said he learned of his grandson’s death at 6 last night,
about an hour after the young man’s name was publicly released.

The elder Stahl, who lives in Killbuck in Holmes County, said his grandson also lived in the
area.

“I’d like to know what happened,” he said in a brief phone interview.

The truck was owned by a man in Baltic, Ohio, a rural crossroads in Tuscarawas County that’s
near Holmes and Coshocton counties. A brother of the man who owns the truck said it had not been
stolen, according to WBNS-TV (Channel 10).